I have multiple reports all of which require the same footer (company address, VAT no etc).
Is there a simple way to write this information once and apply it to all of my reports?
I thought I could do this with a simple subreport but this just seems to copy the subreport to the main report and any changes in the 'footer report' aren't reflected in the main report(s).
Thanks Ant
Have you tried the "Re-Import When Opening" option in your subreport properties yet? Once you select that, any changes you make to your "Common Footer Subreport" should be reflected when you open one of your main reports.
(It's grayed out in my pic since I chose a subreport that was native to the main report. It didn't have a .rpt of it's own)
You want it the other way around. Your main report has your common footer, and the unique details sections are subreports of that one.
I don't think it's quite what you're asking for, but you could create a template with that information in the footer, and then apply the template to each of your reports.
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BIRT Report - using Library as basis for report design files, adding new Report Parameter not reflected in all report design files.
I designed several report parameters into my library file and created 40+ report designs from it. Now I'm adding a couple new report parameters to the Library file that I'd like to see in all of my Birt Reports. If I open a report design file, Eclipse signals me that the library changed if I modify something on the Master Page, but not when I add a new Report parameter to the library file. Is this a defect or do I have to got to each and every report and add the new report parameters manually?
I saw that for individual Report parameters while editing the report design, there is a button in the Properties (bottom window) to "Restore Properties from the original library item", if it were manually overridden in the report, but nothing to reflect additional parameters.
Here is my library outline showing my parameters missing from the report; followed by what my report reflects.
Library Report parameters
Design shows missing Report parameters
... Is this a defect or do I have to got to each and every report and add the new report parameters manually?
This is intended.
You'll have to add each parameter manually.
A BIRT library is a collection of items like layout items, data sets, data sources, report parameters etc.
A BIRT report is more or less the same, the difference being that a report has a body.
Individual items in the report can reference library items.
But there is no such thing like an "item group" - which you would need.
But if you have a lot of reports and a lot of new parameters, you can use the BIRT design engine API (DE API) to open the reports and add the parameters programmatically. Since examples for using the DE API are rare, doing it manually will probably be faster than creating a program for this. Aapprox. 3min x 40 reports = 2h for doing it manually, developing a program will take you at least twice as long, but could be useful in the future.
I am not an expert at SSRS but have played around with it to know my basic way around it but I am stuck on this one. This is for Project Server 2010. I am working on a task to create two reports, and combine them at the end. First report, reportA is for a single project, pulling all of it's information. reportB is for a "Portfolio" of the projects on the server.
I am being asked to create a report of them merged. I guess we will call this reportC. reportC will have reportB at the very top, listing all of the projects and other basic information. If reportB has 10 projects listed, 10 reportAs (having information for every single project listed) and all their information, will be aggregated to the bottom of the report.
I tried looking into subreports but do not think this is what I am looking for because it doesn't look as if subreports can be added dynamically, unless I'm wrong. Any ideas on how to easily complete this? I appreciate any help I can get.
EDIT: Here is an example. No it wont be aligned like that. They gave me their example in Excel. It does not necessarily mean that reportC has to be through Excel. Could this be possible running a script of some kind or similar?
Basic Example
I recently did something very similar myself.
What you could do, is in report A, place a table at the bottom where each row is a sub-report (report B). This would allow for all the passed data (name, report id, etc.) to generate visible sub-reports beneath the origin report.
Then, if you want each sub-report on its own page, you can go under group properties and add a page-break after each group.
I'm trying to use Crystal Reports with Microsoft Visual Studio.
Unfortunately I have many problems which aren't easily summarised.
I have a sub-report before my main Grouped section.
When this sub-report inexplicably fails to display the data it should, I'm also losing the page header sections on the report's first page. I don't know of any reason why the sub-report should effect/interact-with the page headers - I have no code or conditions for suppressing the page headers.
So, I tried suppressing the sub-report section - and I still lose my page headers.
Finally, if I delete entirely the sub-report, I get my page headers back.
It doesn't make sense to me.
Any ideas as to what is going on?
Thank you for your help.
I am un-sure what is going on here, when I generate the report the boxed section is bringing up all of the values for all of the results. how do I make it so these are separate.
This image is showing the report
this image is showing the table links
this image is showing the code in the sub report.
If you require any other information, please just ask.
Many thanks,
Daniel
So you want to restrict the values in the subreport to be the values in the main report? You are probably looking for a feature called "Subreport Linking". Try here: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d05ad954-f8a2-2e10-db9f-bb0f13a7cb1c?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&51887500358899
I am using Crystal Reports 2011. I am totally new to crystal reports and reporting tools in general. I just added my data fields to the details section, but instead of showing all the rows in one page, a new page is created for each row. I did not use any grouping or change the section paging settings.
This only happens for a blank report, when using the report wizard it works fine, but I can't see the difference between what I did and what the report wizard did.
The problem seems to have been a mix up with the sections, I've understood how these work now and got it to work. Thanks for the help.
I had 2 details section, so for every row in details1 it also displayed the information of details2 (which I only wanted to appear once). So I moved the data of details2 into a report footer.
Right click on your report and then go to Section Expert check Is Keep togather is checked
or New Page after or before in not checked.
Make sure that "New Page After" and "New Page Before" are not ticked. Also, Adjust the section sizes to the minimum you need.
In general, it sounds like you have a row data, inserted into the page header/footer section instead of the details section and therefore presented in each page...